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This is the story of an Emperor and his generals, how he found them and how they served him in his first war.
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Gooch, B.D. (1959). Introduction. In: The New Bonapartist Generals in the Crimean War. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-1001-1_1
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